São Paulo, Brazil - 01/14/2008

Diagnósticos da América S/A - DASA (www.diagnosticosdaamerica.com.br), the largest Diagnosis Medicine company of Latin America, has announced the selection of GesFin^TM Planning Solution from Carpio Inc. for its Corporate Financial Planning project implementation, which will be extended throughout its operation, representing over 280 units and 8 Operational Technical Nuclei.

According to Islane Lucena, Business Intelligence Manager of Diagnósticos da América S/A. “The solution will oversee the planning process in all of its business units and will help to determine a better tracking of expenses and performance goals. Since it is a solution completely integrated with the MicroStrategy BI Platform, it will make it significantly easier to automatically collect and generate information from the financial-economic results of all companies in the group, thus allowing full monitoring of results with its Business Intelligence reports. The capability to generate scenarios and simulations of the GesFin^TM Planning Solution will also facilitate our ability to forecast scenarios and perform advanced simulations such as mergers and acquisitions. This characteristic was a key deciding factor during the assessment process,” complements Lucena.

According to Carpio’s Country Manger in Brazil, Richard Kiefer, “Being selected by DASA represents the recognition of the quality of the GesFin^TM Planning Solution when compared to other products in the marketplace. The assessment process of the solutions has followed the strictest evaluation criteria and was conducted by financial professionals proficient in planning and analysis. Over 300 users will use the solution within the Company. We are delighted with the choice of Diagnósticos da América S/A ”.

About Diagnósticos da América S/A

Comprised of a regional network of 16 brands, Club DA, Delboni Auriemo, Lavoisier and Científica Lab, in São Paulo; Club DA, Lâmina and Bronstein, in Rio de Janeiro; Pasteur, MedLabor and Exame, in Brasília; Frischmann Aisengart, and Curitiba Santa Casa, in Curitiba; Image Memorial, in Salvador; Laboratório Alvaro in Cascavel; LabPasteur in Fortaleza, Atalaia in Goiânia and Vita Lâmina in Florianópolis, DASA sees over 20 thousand patients per day and processes over 100 thousand clinical analysis tests daily. It counts with approximately 10 thousand employees, and all of its processes and proceedings are recognized by the most respected national and international quality certification institutions: British Standard Institute (ISO 9001:2000), INMETRO, Brazilian Clinical Pathology Society (PALC e PELM) and CAP – College of American Pathologists.

About Carpio

Carpio Inc. (www.carpio.com) is a Pan-American software and services company, operating in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Panama. Carpio offers consulting services and development of solutions aimed at intelligence and maturity of corporate financial management. The main solution of the company, GesFin^TM Planning, specializes in the financial planning and monitoring of corporate performance. It provides managers with advanced business analysis and boasts a wide predictive capability through the creation of scenarios and simulations. It manages sales forecast, cash management, expenses, budgets, investment analysis, in addition to monitoring and balancing of performance indicators.

For additional information please contact Carpio at info@carpio.com.